The system is failing even for those well positioned to ride the success of (but not hold stake in) the general market. The first upper-middle class runners are coming across the line to find nothing there. How does that effect the tipping point? Is this a marker of a Late Stage?
Does anyone even subscribe to the American Dream anymore? Maybe there isn’t a big pack running behind these first place white men to find a cliff at the finish line.
Is it the last remnants of an experiment burning out, or is it just the first car to crest the rollercoaster?
Or is the suicide stat meaningless and the power structure still favors inherited white male privilege so significantly that it’s dumb to grasp at minor perceived cracks forming? If this then what’s the stat about?
It's not just American white men, though. Nordic countries have long had high suicide rates, with it also being disproportionately men.
Seems possible that many white men have a subconscious awareness that they are advantaged in Western capitalism, thus dissatisfaction comes with deeper shame.
Capitalist alienation is still a thing even in capitalist nations that are doing well economically, that’s something we shouldn’t overlook.
I always thought that had something to do with their longass winters
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Some parts of Nordic countries do not see the sun for months at a time. This jas a great affect on many people
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